The handling editor finds that the authors’ responses to reviewer comments are satisfactory and the manuscript should be accepted to publication in Biogeosciences after some minor revisions, which mainly include text changes, but also one issue with missing data in the Results chapter. See the attched pdf document for full list of comments.

Dear authors

The handling editor thanks the authors for very postive responses to his final comments and hereby accepts the manuscript for a final publication in Biogeosciences.

The production office will ask you to again upload the final version of the manuscript and the graphic files in orginal format.

You might check again the wording of the final paragraph you inserted in the Results:
a) ranking from => ranging from ???
b) sites, why no... => sites, which is why no... I

Then the manuscript will also undergo English check during the final production process...

Yours sincerely

Bjarni D. Sigurdsson